thank you tony for the response. I'll check that. That I decided to compile source was not to correct the error - just like to play it but bang! I hit the wall...<br><br>Hai<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 30, 2007 10:56 PM, Troy Arnold <
<a href="mailto:troy-vox@zenux.net">troy-vox@zenux.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:31:32PM -0500, Hai Yi wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I have ubuntu 7.04 install on my system (CPU core duo 6300)<br>><br>> Now I want to play DVD with mplayer, which is preinstalled. However, the
<br>> image was totally unviewable - only mosaic-like blocks. Anyway, it might be<br>> the codec. I just feel like re-installing the mplayer. So I removed the<br>> existing one and started downloading and installing a latest one.
<br>><br>> Problem is, the very first step, configuration failed when I run ./configure<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> /tmp/mplayer-conf--16148.c:1:20: error: signal.h: No such file or directory<br><br></div>
The error probably means you don't have the kernel-headers package for your<br>installed kernel.<br><br>But I don't know that building from source is going to be of benefit if all<br>you're looking to do is play media. Instead, the first thing to do is
<br>verify that these two packages are installed:<br>w32codecs, libdvdcss<br><br><br>-t<br>_______________________________________________<br>vox-tech mailing list<br><a href="mailto:vox-tech@lists.lugod.org">vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
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